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Cambridge, where lie took his degree of B.A. in 1861 and 
M.A. in 1864. He was ordained in 1870, and acted as his 
father’s curate for four years before succeeding him in the 
living which was his only cure. 
His interest in Natural History was very considerable, and 
in his younger days, accompanied by Mr. Upcher and the late 
Mr. G. G. Fowler, of Gunton Hall, who was for many years 
a Member of the Union, he made an excursion to Iceland, 
and visited the north-western peninsula, a portion of the 
island not previously explored by any English traveller. 
The results of this visit, both ornithological and otherwise, 
are related in a little book, 4 The North-west Peninsula of 
Iceland,’ published in 1867 (see 4 Ibis,’ 1867, p. 239). 
Mr. Sheppard and Mr. Upcher subsequently accompanied 
Canon Tristram to Palestine in 1864-5, and the results of 
that expedition will be found recounted in the pages of 4 The 
Ibis ’ for 1865 and onwards, where Mr. Sheppard’s name is 
often mentioned. 
The only other ornithological publication with which 
Mr. Sheppard’s name is connected is 4 Notes on the Birds cf 
Kent/ published in 1907, in which he collaborated with 
Messrs. B. J. Balston and E. Bartlett. 
Mr. Sheppard had a fine collection of Ducks, both British 
and foreign, the foundation of which was made during his 
visit to Iceland. For nearly half a century he had been the 
father of his parish, and was greatly respected and beloved 
by all the people of his neighbourhood, though he was not 
perhaps so well known among the younger ornithologists 
of to-day as he deserved to be. 
Herbert Huntington Smith. 
Mr. Smith, who met with his death through a railway 
accident on the 22nd of March, 1919, at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 
U.S.A., was Curator of the Alabama Museum of Natural 
History, and one of the earliest and most experienced of 
American field-naturalists. 
Between 1881 and 1886 Mr. Smith, accompanied by his 
